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The U.S. Supreme Court sent Virginia's 3rd District gerrymander case back down the pipe on Monday, a move that brings Virginia another step closer to a redraw of its congressional map.
The nation's highest court vacated and remanded a three-judge panel's...

Gov. Terry McAuliffe signed off on the state budget Thursday without suggesting any amendments or line item vetoes, the first time that's happened in Virginia since 1998.
McAuliffe, a Democrat in his second year as governor, was at the signing joined...

Tommy Norment is seeking re-election as the state Senator from the 3rd district, which stretches from the Middle Peninsula to the South of the James counties of Isle of Wight and Surry.
Norment, R-James City County, who is the Senate Majority...

The local elections slate for General Assembly seats is coming together, and it looks like there won't be many contested races.
Folks may still get in under the wire (all they had to do was have completed campaign forms postmarked by Thursday at 5...

Military leaders over the past week have sharpened warnings that force readiness is unraveling and it could plummet if Congress allows the next round of defense cuts mandated by the 2011 Budget Control Act (BCA), with its sequestration tool, to take...

Sen. Ted Cruz opened the first major campaign of the 2016 presidential season Monday with a kickoff speech courting cultural conservatives and declaring that he will devote himself to "reigniting the promise of America."
One of several...

One of the truisms of Virginia politics is that our odd-year state elections, particularly those like this year’s when only the state Senate and House of Delegates are on the ballot, tap an electorate that’s more Republican than other years. The idea is...

Things are hotting up in the race to control the state Senate this year – and, oddly enough, the latest action is in the usually quiet western stretches of the state.
In Roanoke, where the lone southwest Virginia Democratic Senator, John Edwards,...

That was some roller coaster in politics, 2014 was.
A sure-bet Senate election turned squeaker. A dance on the edge of a fiscal cliff over the state budget. A special session on the Medicaid expansion standoff that ended up … a standoff.
Then there...

The key to providing access to quality health care for those with a mental illness lies in the expansion of Medicaid, Lt. Gov. Ralph Northam said Thursday to a crowd of 500 at the 25th annual Thanksgiving banquet of Hampton-Newport News Community Services...

Gov. Terry McAuliffe emerged from a long morning meeting with state industry leaders concerned about "head winds" facing Virginia's economy, but mum on how his administration will react when it releases a new state budget draft next month.
With...

Sen. Tim Kaine wants Virginians to believe he is, as he says, a "pro-pipeline senator" and someone who supports the continued production of carbon-based fuel to satisfy the nation's energy appetite.
However, by voting against the Keystone XL...

At a gathering of more than 65 people at a Filipino restaurant in Virginia Beach, GOP Senate hopeful Ed Gillespie explained how he would fight to repeal sequestration, work with the president on trade agreements and save jobs by not raising the minimum...

With a month to go before the General Assembly convenes, here comes one real line in the sand:
That nearly $1 billion that the state pays localities to compensate for lost car tax revenue is off the table as a way to balance the budget, House...

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The $1.1 trillion spending bill that survived a nail-biting vote in the House on Thursday night has several important provisions for the Hampton Roads defense community.
But that vote was close for a reason: Both Republicans and Democrats object to...

Almost 18 years ago, then Del. Bob McDonnell worked against the state Supreme Court nomination of Judge Margaret P. Spencer.
Next month Spencer's husband, U.S. District Court Judge James R. Spencer, is set to sentence McDonnell on federal corruption...

Republican Party of Virginia Chairman Pat Mullins sent word around today that he'll be retiring. From his letter:
"We've had our highs and lows -- winning elections and losing elections -- and regardless of the outcome, I'm more convinced than ever,...

ARLINGTON – U.S. Sen. Mark Warner was re-elected by a razor-thin margin of less than one percentage point Tuesday in a race that polls had predicted him winning handily.
At 8:40 a.m. Wednesday, the unofficial results from the State Board of Elections,...

For the moment, the war for one of Virginia's two U.S. Senate seats is on hold, as local election officials across the state launch their usual one-to-three day effort to verify results from Tuesday's unexpectedly close race between Sen. Mark Warner and...